The Taproot Project

We’re digitizing the root documents of Texas history. The more we know, the stronger we are. We refute emotion-driven history with the facts, and then we cite our sources. Taproot puts the sources at your fingertips, no matter where you are.

History of Spanish & Mexican Texas
Michelle Haas Michelle Haas

History of Spanish & Mexican Texas

The full text of Carlos Castañeda’s 7-volume Our Catholic Heritage,. the best guide to three centuries of Spanish and Mexican Texas. Embracing 92 early expeditions to and 50 missions in early Texas, Castanñda’s work exposed the hustle and bustle of this place in the 16th-19th centuries.

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